2 hours ago, Kz! said:

Yeah, a flood of migrants should really help as Americans struggle with joblessness due to the pandemic. 

Goalposts!!!! on the fly no less...!

 

On 2/12/2021 at 3:59 AM, UK_EaglesFan89 said:

Someone help me please. We are getting reports in the UK that social distancing and restrictions are to remain in place until the autumn or even the end of the year! And that's with our vaccine programme going really well. What is going on! If the vaccine isn't the route out of this then what is! I am starting to get in to a dark head space again where there is no end in sight and this is the rest of our lives.

I could say told you so but I won't, you don't actually think that restrictions will be removed do you? they will use the excuse as long as one person still gets hospitalized  we need to protect everyone . The politicians have found a new way to intrude on everyone's lives, you can't actually think they would ever give that up

KZ: "I just don't miss!"

Also KZ:

 

1 hour ago, Kz! said:

You'll have to forgive me, but I've been wrecking braindead leftists all day and it's left me a little exhausted. What exactly is your point with the link? That the governor is responsible for false positives? Or that false positives are somehow as bad as ordering your staff to intentionally suppress nursing home deaths?

I really hope that's not your point, because if it is, wow.

 

You are such a hypcrite, you bash the left which is fine , but when the right wing nut jobs do the same type of stuff you are silent

7 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

You are such a hypcrite, you bash the left which is fine , but when the right wing nut jobs do the same type of stuff you are silent

What type of stuff are you referring to?

9 minutes ago, Kz! said:

What type of stuff are you referring to?

1 minute ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Are you specifically talking about Ron Desantis doing the "same type of stuff?”

5 minutes ago, Kz! said:

Are you specifically talking about Ron Desantis doing the "same type of stuff?”

You know what I mean.

I haven't done a Sweden update for a while.  Here goes.

The second wave is on the final few weeks of the downside of the curve.  In the end of the day it was nearly identical to the first wave in terms of hospital patients, deaths, etc.  The big difference was that it spread out more into the less populated parts of the country.  That may have been due to the holiday period.

General restrictions and policy measures have been stable now for a couple months.  No alcohol served after 8pm which essentially shuts down all bars/restaurants.  Restaurants basically start pushing everyone out about 8:15 and by 8:30 they are empty.  Distancing in restaurants is monitored and there have been quite a few situations where temporary shutdown orders and fines have been levied.  Schools are all open with school from home for universities and high schools.  Middle and elementary schools are almost entirely in the classroom.  Local exceptions do take place due to outbreaks for short periods of time.  Office work is vastly done from home except for certain types of activity that require people going into a physical location.  Stores are pretty good a policing the distancing measures.  Masks are recommended in rush hour on public transportation (I'd say about 50% of people wear masks in rush hour and probably about 1/4 in off hours).  Some stores require masks and/or hand them out at the entrances.  Hand sanitizer is pretty much everywhere.  All in all the populace behaves well but far from the level of great during the Mar-Jun period in '20.

Politically the rhetoric has ramped up some on this topic but still nothing compared to the US.  The media on the other hand has been quite aggressive in attacking much of the overall govt execution and to some extent the strategy as well.  There have also been many debate and opinion pieces both on tv and in print from all types of various experts.  Right now the big push is with the rate of vaccine rollout which is under heavy critique (rightly so).  Seems like they are way behind in Stockholm and haven't even really gotten things going yet beyond the very top priority group of people in the medical profession and people in nursing home situations (and equivalent).

14 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

You know what I mean.

On 2/12/2021 at 5:21 AM, paco said:

Schmoopie and I got an appointment

Next morning update:

My arm is a bit sore and I have an unquenchable thirst to buy Microsoft products.

 

@EagleVA : Why do you think my arm is sore this AM?

2 minutes ago, paco said:

Next morning update:

My arm is a bit sore and I have an unquenchable thirst to buy Microsoft products.

 

@EagleVA : Why do you think my arm is sore this AM?

Quit stroking the Burrito.

At least one major vaccine appears to work against all known variants (and will likely work against future mutants too).

This week, virologists at Oxford produced strong evidence that Pfizer’s vaccine promotes a robust immune response against both the British and South African COVID variants. 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/02/will-covid-vaccine-work-uk-strain-south-africa-herd-immunity.html

 

Say it wit me, fam... Tiddies in muh face! Tiddies in muh face!  

18 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

At least one major vaccine appears to work against all known variants (and will likely work against future mutants too).

This week, virologists at Oxford produced strong evidence that Pfizer’s vaccine promotes a robust immune response against both the British and South African COVID variants. 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/02/will-covid-vaccine-work-uk-strain-south-africa-herd-immunity.html

 

Say it wit me, fam... Tiddies in muh face! Tiddies in muh face!  

I don't understand the correlation.

2 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

At least one major vaccine appears to work against all known variants (and will likely work against future mutants too).

This week, virologists at Oxford produced strong evidence that Pfizer’s vaccine promotes a robust immune response against both the British and South African COVID variants. 

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/02/will-covid-vaccine-work-uk-strain-south-africa-herd-immunity.html

 

Say it wit me, fam... Tiddies in muh face! Tiddies in muh face!  

A few months everyone thought Herd immunity would happen, now that is out the window, the prognosis only gets worse.

On 2/12/2021 at 3:08 PM, Green Dog said:

 

Some Florida residents are being told they have COVID-19 without ever testing for it

 

 

Wait, are you surprised by these shenanigans?

If so, shame on you, they've been going on since day 1, that's usually the case when a hoax is being perpetrated.  

25 minutes ago, EagleVA said:

Wait, are you surprised by these shenanigans?

If so, shame on you, they've been going on since day 1, that's usually the case when a hoax is being perpetrated.  

Who said I was surprised?  With DeSantis, probably the most inept and corrupt governor we have, they had policies and guidelines put in place down there specifically designed to hinder medical workers and literally to help increase the spread of the virus.  DeSantis even sent armed officials to a doctors house who wouldn't lie about covid statistics that made him look bad to Trump.

Luckily that article is from July, and with Biden's new policies starting to get put into action things should improve.  I think I read the other day their daily counts (cases and deaths) were finally going down.

Btw, make sure you get registered for your vaccine.  Stay safe!

8 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

A few months everyone thought Herd immunity would happen, now that is out the window, the prognosis only gets worse.

Not sure what you mean by "the prognosis only gets worse”? The article shows that the Pfizer vaccine is very effective against all variants. That means the Moderna one likely will be as well. Once most people are vaccinated things will get back to normal.

41 minutes ago, Green Dog said:

Btw, make sure you get registered for your vaccine.  Stay safe!

Registered?  Never heard that.

On 2/12/2021 at 5:03 PM, Joe Shades 73 said:

I could say told you so but I won't, you don't actually think that restrictions will be removed do you? they will use the excuse as long as one person still gets hospitalized  we need to protect everyone . The poloticians have found a new way to intrude on everyone's lives, you can't actually think they would ever give that up

It seems as though folks don't understand, restrictions and vaccines won't end until there's nationwide non-compliance.  

I can tell you now, they're going to make vaccines a yearly requirement and I for one ain't going for it.

I'm not sure what vaccines I had as a child but as an adult I've had 0 and I intend to keep it that way.

Funny thing about, I'm not an anti-vaccer, I've never researched the topic until COVID-19, I've just never saw the need to get one, my immune system does just fine without pharmaceutical intervention.  

I'll tell you guys again, research germ theory, that'll tell you everything you need to know about  the worthlessness of vaccines.

Kz in real life

 

28 minutes ago, EagleVA said:

I'm not sure what vaccines I had as a child but as an adult I've had 0 and I intend to keep it that way.

Funny thing about, I'm not an anti-vaccer, I've never researched the topic until COVID-19, I've just never saw the need to get one, my immune system does just fine without pharmaceutical intervention.  

Did you ever wonder why you don’t need vaccines for things like polio or tuberculosis?

55 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Did you ever wonder why you don’t need vaccines for things like polio or tuberculosis?

Research germ theory and you'll learn all about the polio,  tuberculosis, and Spanish flu vaccines. 

"The germ/virus is nothing but the terrain is everything.".....L Pasteur on his death bed.

A week late on this one.  Will be posting last week's and this week's post today:

https://www.nothingbutthetruthmd.com/2021/02/2721-covid-19-update.html

Few would disagree that Covid-19 and vaccine distribution to help control the disease are the most important health issues facing society today and for the last year.

As of 2/3/21, Pennsylvania ranks 46th  out of 52 states in getting the vaccine distributed to its citizens, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracking data.

Dr. Rachel Levine, as head of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, was the individual tasked with designing and implementing a plan. The performance on Dr. Levine's part ranks near the bottom of the class!  Fortunately for the State of Pennsylvania, she has been selected by President Biden to be the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services at the Federal level.  The same challenges are facing the Federal government now and for the foreseeable future.  Dr. Levine will take her lack of expertise and accomplishment now to the Federal level.  Not sure what President Biden was looking for.

This gives Governor Wolf a chance to select an individual who will improve these metrics for the citizens of Pennsylvania.  The challenges will continue for many months.  For this important task it would be hard to pick worse.  

I have written twice to Governor Wolf about the lack of distribution success in our state.  He blames Trump and the inadequate supply of vaccine but he does not explain how 45 states working with the same shortages and under the same President have performed better at distribution than Pennsylvania.

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES

Monoclonal antibodies have now been proven to be 80% effective in preventing disease when used within the first five days of a positive Covid test in vulnerable patients.  There are few if any therapeutic medicines that work so quickly and decisively in healthcare today.

Approximately 50% of the available stock of monoclonal antibodies remains unused.

Last week over 22,000 people died of Covid-19.  Most of them could have been saved with a proper plan for the use of Monoclonal antibodies.

The new head of the CDC, Dr. Walensky, routinely used Remdisivir in her practice, a drug of questionable clinical relevance in the most supportive study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.  When asked about Monoclonal Antibodies her response was lukewarm at best.  She opined that it was "hard" to set up infusion centers for Covid patients at healthcare facilities.  When is it ever easy to save 15,000 or 16,000 people a week?  Nothing has been easy during this pandemic when it came to saving lives.  It was not easy to get the CDC to admit that wearing masks was beneficial, it was not easy to get people to wear masks.  As a healthcare worker, it wasn't easy treating people with a disease we knew little about which was obviously very contagious.  It wasn't easy for healthcare systems to morph intensive care beds in every  spare unit available and then find the staff to cover them so that they could save lives.

For an organization that loves to pat itself on the back and boast of world ratings, there have been many missteps by the CDC during the Covid Pandemic.

VENTIALTION AND FILTRATION:  HOW CN WE PREVENT COVID-19 AND OPTIMIZE HEALTH USING AIR PRUIFIERS AND HEPA FILTERS

Joseph Allen, DSc MPH

Professor at the T.H Chan School of Public Health

1/25/21

1.  The premise that viral load (the amount of virus taken in at the time of inoculation) is pertinent to disease transmission and severity of disease, makes masks, ventilation and filtration strategies important.

2.  Dr. Allen is very disappointed that the CDC has been so late in recognizing the importance of aerosol transmission in spreading the Covid-19 virus.

3.  It is important in increase outside air mixing with indoor air to decrease vial load - keep the windows in the car down somewhat when traveling with others to increase the admixture of outside air

4.  If air turnover/filtration is deficient in the building, portable air purifiers (MERV 13 filters or higher) will capture about 80% of the particles relevant to viral transmission, thus reducing viral load in the air

5.  Portable air filters with HEPA filters at "HarvardHealthyBuidlings" Website - allows you to calculate what size you need, along with some other pertinent information

6.  Optimally, you are looking for you are seeking 4 to 6 Air Changes per Hour (ACH)

7.  Many schools are not meeting the current standard of 3 ACH.  Dr. Allen feels that improving ACH rates to the optimum number is be more effective than plexiglass barriers,  He also feels that increasing ACH to 4 to 6 in schools would make it safer to for all involved to  return children to  in class learning.

8. Clear air delivery rate (CADR) can be found on most air filters.  It is usually expressed in cubic feet per minute (CFM)

The height of the room X width X length (measured in feet) will give the the cubic feet of the room.  Multiple this number by 4 to 6 which is the optimal exchange rate for the total volume of air that needs to be moved in an hour.  This will give you volume, multiple by 60 the CFM on the air filter for the hourly air turnover rate and purchase a unit that comes near the 4 to 6  ACH volume you have measured for the room.

9.  Dr. Allen feels that air travel is safe as long as the air filtration systems on the jets are turned on during boarding.  He states that most commercial jets circulate air at 12 ACH, all recirculated air goes through HEPA filters of great efficiency.

CHANGING AGE DISTRIBUTION OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC - US MAY - AUGUST 2020

WMMR 10-2-20

During June - August, Covid-19 incidence was highest in persons age 20 -29, who accounted for 20% of all cases across the Southern US.  In June increases in the percentage of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests results among 20 -39 year old people preceded increases in infections among those greater than 60 by 4 - 15 days, suggesting that younger people were likely contributing to community transmission among older people.

A similar shift in age distribution was seen in Europe during June - July when the 20 - 29 year old age group accounted for 19.5% of the total infections.

The number of emergency department visits for Covid-19 like symptoms showed similar shifts in age group (thus testing was not the only indicator)

EARLY COVID-19 FIRST DOSE VACCINATION COVERAGE AMONG RESIDENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS OF SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES (SNF)  PARTICIPATING IN THE PHARMACY PARTNERSHIP FOR LONG TERM CARE RESIDENTS - UNITED STATES, DECEMBER - JANUARY 2020

R. Gharpure DVM et al.

WMMR

It has been recognized that the long term care residents were extremely vulnerable to Covid-19 and the high percentage of deaths among this population is irrefutable proof of their vulnerability (accounted for 60% of the US deaths up through mid November)  It was wisely decided to prioritize this group for vaccination. The CDC launched the Pharmacy Partnership for Long Term Care Program to facilitate onsite vaccination of residents and staff enrolled in LTCF.

Among 11,460 SNF facilities with at least one vaccination clinic during the first month of the program, 12-18-20 to 1-17-21,  77.8% of the residents and 37.5% of the staff members per facility received more than one dose of vaccine through the program.

A total of 713,909 residents and 582,104 staff received vaccination.

The numbers provided probably underestimate actual vaccination of this population. (staff may have been encouraged to receive vaccination at other healthcare facilities, vaccination only estimated numbers at CMS certified SNF because of the ability to verify the data and does not therefor account for LTCF not enrolled in the program)

Data collected from this program will be ongoing.  Overall, at least 1.2 million staff and residents have been vaccinated in this national population of about 3.2 million.

This program will have a beneficial reduction in the hospital cases and deaths in the near future as seroconversion reaches its optimal. stage.  This was "hard" with a lot of moving parts.  It was great idea on the part of the CDC and the execution was excellent.  By now, most of this vulnerable population has been immunized.

SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF rAd26 and rAd25 VECTOR BASED HETEROLOGOUS PRIME-BOOST COVID-19 VACCINE, AN INTERIM ANALYSIS OF A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED PHASE 3 TRIAL.

DD. V. Logonov DSc

Lancet 2-2-21

This is the Russian vaccine called Sputnik V

Between 9-7-20- and 11-24-20, 21,977 adults, > age 18 were randomly assigned to one of three groups.  One group received placebo, the other two groups received one of the vector vaccines, two shots were given 21 days apart.  From day 21, the first day of the second dose and going forward, 0.1% of those receiving the vaccine became infected with Covid-19.  In the placebo group the infection rate was 1.3% (91% effective)

The vaccine had a good safety profit similar to those of the other vaccines that have been approved for market.  It produced both a strong humoral and cellular immunity in participants.

The vaccine is stored and distributed at -18C.

NUMBERS

Vaccination - 40.5 million US citizens have now been vaccinated (approximately 10 million in the last week)

8.8 million have received two doses

we are now averaging 1.4 million doses a day and I am confident that number will continue to rise

We have received an additional 10 million doses of vaccine in the last week

Switzerland denied the use of the Astra Zeneca/Oxford vaccine in its country

Deaths - 462,181 (22,618 in the last week) many of these could have been prevented with increased use of monoclonal antibody

Weekly Infection rate - up 3.8% (but down from 4.2% the week before)  I do not think we are going to witness the catastrophe that Dr. Osterholm was scaring people with last Sunday

Hospital Bed Utilization - 84,239 (down from 109,000)  CAUTION - I have heard that they are calculating this differently now, 10 days after a positive Covid-19 test they are no long considered a Covid bed.  While it is true they are no longer infectious they are still occupying a bed, but it does make the numbers look better.

CASE FATALITY RATE SINCE OCTOBER 15, 2020- continues to tick up, 1.29% (last week 1.24%)

Enjoy the rest of the day

Live Safer

Be Well

2/14/21 Update

https://www.nothingbutthetruthmd.com/2021/02/21421-covid-19-update.html

It has been a challenging year,  we have witnessed some of the best and worst of our society during this pandemic.

 

The light appears to be growing brighter at the tunnels end.

 

Loosely paraphrasing Herbert Hoover; (1922) The greatness of America resides in its singular conception of individualism.  Human progress stems from intelligence, character and courage of individuals.  Because our society is based upon the attainments of individuals and the divine spark of the human soul within, and the potential to make a worthy contribution to life, it is surely in the best interest of our society to ensure equality of opportunity for all.  As we seem to be overcoming the dreadful challenge we have faced, focusing on maximizing the potential of all, their courage and character, what a society we might attain,  that the good of so many people might make possible.

 

DR. ROCHELLE WALENSKY - New Head of the CDC.  In an interview with Dr. Howard Bauchner, aired on 1/19/21, Dr. Walensky admitted to having no experience running such a large organization but she looked forward to the challenge.  

 

There was an early misstep in her understanding  (or lack thereof)  of the quantity of Vaccine that the US had available in stock.

 

On 2/8/21,  Dr. Walensky, in a public interview, opined that school teachers did not need to get vaccinated to return safely to in class teaching.  Within the hour, the White House Press Secretary took to the airwaves stating that the remarks by Dr. Walensky regarding vaccinations for school teachers were her personal opinions and not those of the CDC or the Administration.  The learning curve is steep!

 

PFIZER - On 2/8/21 a company spokesperson informed the world that Pfizer, effective immediately, has learned how to cut its production time for the vaccine in half.  GREAT NEWS!!

 

SARS-COV-2 VACCINES - THE GROWING THREAT OF VIRAL VARIANTS

John P. Moore, PhD

Paul A. Offit, MD 

JAMA 1-28-21

 

The last great Pandemic occurred in 1918 and was known as the Spanish Flu.

 

It had several phases beginning in March of 1918, as a not particularly virulent organism.  July 1918 things changed, and in the fall, millions died world wide.  World War I, troop transports, crowded living conditions and total lack of effective treatments contributed to the devastation.

 

Medical science knew nothing of gene sequencing or asymptomatic spread or biomarkers for detection.  By 1920, the Spanish Flu for all intents and purposes had gone away.  Most likely due to herd immunity but possibly to variant's that became so benign as not to be noticed. There were undoubtedly multiple variants along the way.  Immunity to the ancestral virus seems to have had some effect on subsequent strains.  Rural areas with little exposure to previous minor Flu episodes were fairly decimated by the Spanish Flu.  Subsequent  Spanish Flu phases did not seem to effect previously devastated areas nearly as viciously.

 

There is much that we do not know about the Spanish Flu and will never find out.  Even the number of estimated deaths is highly variable. (sound familiar)  We know that many survived symptomatic disease.  We have no idea of the number of asymptomatic cases.  We do know that it went away and many experts attribute the disappearance to herd immunity.  For this to be true, antibodies to the ancestral virus must have had some mitigating effect  as the evolution of Spanish Flu variants occurred.

 

We know so much more today.  We are able to precisely identify the types of variants and their make up.  Their existence is a rich source of material for the press and scary stories make great copy.

 

Protection against Covid-19 is mediated in large part by an immune response directed against the spike (S)  protein on the virus which is responsible for cell binding (to the host) and is the target for the virus neutralizing antibodies (NABs) which bind to the the S protein at a few sites, usually in or near the receptor binding domain (RBD), preventing the virus from attaching to the ACE2 receptor on human host cells.

 

Variants in the S protein may increase the amount of virus shed or increase the affinity for ACE2 receptors and increase viral transmission.  Variants may also change the shape of the S protein and impair or even destroy NABs binding sites, compromising vaccine induced antibody efficacy.  These "escape" mutations typically arise when the virus is put under pressure (the human is winning the battle)  by antibodies that limit but do not eliminate viral replication, and restore the virus's ability to compete more effectively. Under these conditions, the virus might find a way to escape the pressure and restore its ability to compete more effectively. The scenario of viral evolution in the face of suboptimal immunity (less than adequate levels of NABs to compensate for reduced efficacy secondary to viral evolution) is one of the reasons extending the interval between the first and second doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine may be problematic.  The second dose, in the proper interval, triggers a dramatic increase in NAB level (creating "space capacity") and also gives rise to cellular immunity.

 

In past pandemics, these variants occurred, there were no effective vaccines and it is possible that viral evolution sparked changes in antibody configuration that allowed our NAB to catch up to the variants or there were enough similarities that our NAB remained effective enough to halt the death spree but not the disease.

 

Around March or April, Covid-19 seems to have been replaced world wide by a new variant, D614G.  This variant did not escape recognition by NAB.

 

In August 2020, B.1.1.7 was recognized in the UK and subsequently spread to many countries.  It has a new sequencing chain in the S protein which appears to increase transmissibility but again this variant seems to be susceptible to our NAB and relevant serum samples from the recipients of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are equally effective at neutralizing this new strain.

 

There is now a variant identified in South Africa, B.1.351 and a similar variant in Brazil.  These variants have many more new sequences than previous variants.  Researchers have shown that the changes moderately reduce the efficacy with which mRNA vaccine induced antibodies neutralize test viruses in the lab.  In addition, an NIH study now shows that NAB induced by the Moderna vaccine are about 6 fold less active against B.1.351.  The relevance of this resistance is uncertain at this time, as it does not account for the helper T-cells and cytotoxic T cells.  Also, the mRNA vaccines, with two shots, induces a strong NAB response that could create "space capacity" to deal with reductions in affinity by the NABs.

 

The vector vaccines seem to induce lower levels of NABs (or NAB with reduced affinity)  and thus their reduced efficacy, but it is too early for a definitive statement.  South Africa has halted the roll out of the Astra Zeneca vaccine.  It is not surprising that a vaccine with reduced affinity for the virus would be compromised by configurational changes of a new variant that alter susceptibility.

 

The more these variants are introduced into society the more likely they will make it to a super spreader event with dire consequences.

 

WEARING MASKS AND DISTANCING REMAINS A SOLID DEFENSE AGAINST VIRAL TRANSMISSION.

 

NECESSITY OF TWO DOSES OF THE PFIZER AND MODERNA COVID-19 VACCINES

Edward Livingston, MD (Deputy Editor of JAMA)

JAMA 2/2/20

 

Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a highly unstable molecule that is used to create proteins in cells.  mRNA can be synthesized in a lab and when entering into cells, can cause pieces of protein to be made.  When these small pieces of protein (peptides) leave the cell, the body can develop an immune reaction to them.  The two main US vaccines use this approach to vaccinate people.  

 

We know that after the second dose of vaccine is administered a significant increase in NAB level and a cellular response develop.

 

It is possible that people who only receive one dose in the proper interval will have only a partial immunity to Covid-19 infection resulting in a higher risk of more resistant variant evolution.  There is no evidence that people who receive only one dose have adequate long term protection against Covid-19 infection.  No more than six weeks should elapse between the first and second dose.

 

NUMBERS

 

Vaccination - in the last seven days we have vaccinated 1.64 million people per day.  The US has received from vaccine suppliers about 69,851,030 doses (about 10 million additional doses per week since mid January) and we have distributed about 74% of those doses.  As of yesterday we have vaccinated about 52 million people, 13.7 million have completed two doses.  I am certain that we will be able to vaccinate many more per day once our supply of vaccine increases which I believe will start sometime in March.

 

South Africa has halted the roll out of Astra Zeneca vaccine.

 

Pennsylvania continues to perform poorly and Governor Wolf continues to make asinine excuses.  Wonder where he will land in the Federal Government once his term as Governor is over??

 

DEATHS - 484,149  (21,968 in the last week, down from 22,618 the week before)

 

HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION - 69,283 (down from 84,239 the week before)

 

WEEKLY NEW CASES - up 2.5% (down from 3.8% the week before)

 

CASE FATALITY RATE -  continues to tick up since October 15th, and is now at 1.36% (up from 1.29% last week)

 

There has now been a three week downward trend in cases and hospital bed utilization.  As we vaccinate more people, especially those stratified at risk (unfortunately this has not happened as it should have) this trend should continue. Many of the state systems are so poorly constructed that many over 70 still have not received vaccines while many under 50 with no risk factors have.

 

Enjoy the day

 

Live Safer

Be Well